We face the tragic prospect of the next generation being caught in a conceptual double bind where the ability to understand the problem will be dependent upon the same patterns of thought partly responsible for the scope of the crisis (Bowers 1993: 32).

school children in Nepal

IMF Finance Committee

What false idea has knowledge gotten of itself and what excessive use has it exposed itself to, to what domination is it therefore linked? (Foucault 1997: 49)

What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul? (Rumi)